(via Julia Warga, Kenyon College) This is the third request for feedback from the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC). In anticipation of a new edition of The Intellectual Freedom Manual, the IFC is in the process of updating intellectual freedom-related documents. The IFC would appreciate feedback on “Challenged Resources: An Interpretation of the Library Bill…
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Registration Open for January’s Online with the CMC Training Session (“The Fix Is In: MARC Fixed Fields”–10:00 AM on 1/17)
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago, on behalf of Nincy George, Reaching Across Illinois Library System) These services from the CMC (Cataloging Maintenance Center) are available to all libraries in Illinois. My name is Nincy George and I am RAILS’s new Cataloging Services Coordinator. I am here to develop cataloging training and services…
Registration Open for MLA’s January 29 Webinar on Systematic Review Projects and Services
(via the National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) Are you buried under SR requests? Worried that your hard work at the beginning of a review project will be filed away, never to be seen again? Are you planning to start a systematic review service and want to plan for success? An…
Call for Project Proposals: 2019 National Institutes of Health Hackathon (Deadline January 7)
(via the National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) The NCBI will host a collaborative biodata science hackathon on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland February 20-22. We are now collecting project proposals focusing on building tools and pipelines for advanced analysis of biomedical datasets including text, images, next generation sequencing data,…
Call for Volunteers: ALA NMRT Resume Reviewers and Booth Greeters at ALA Midwinter
(via Jillian Hayes, NMRT Resume Review Service Committee Chair) The ALA New Members Round Table Resume Review Service Committee is recruiting volunteer resume reviewers and booth greeters as well as taking resume review appointments for the 20189 ALA Midwinter Meeting! This is a free in-person service that will be located in the ALA Job Placement Center…
Site for Submitting MLA 2019 Poster and Lightning-Talk Proposals Open Until January 25
(via the Medical Library Association) The MLA ’19 site for poster and lightning-talk submissions is open as of today: Wednesday, December 12, 2018. The site will remain open until Friday, January 25, 2019. Submit <https://www.conferenceabstracts.com/cfp2/LoginSSO.asp?EventKey=CIIMKJMV&UserEmail=&UserPassword=&User=&memberID=> your poster or lightning talk structured abstract with a description of a research project or program using the guidelines on…
Registration Open for NNLM’s Third Cohort of Bioinformatics Continuing-Education Courses (Deadline January 7)
(via the National Network of Libraries of Medicine – Greater Midwest Region) The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is pleased to announce open registration for the third cohort of Bioinformatics and Biology Essentials for Librarians: Databases, Tools, and Clinical Applications! This 16-week, self-paced Moodle course, from January 14 – May 3, 2019, reviews basic…
Call for Mentors and Mentees: ACRL ULS “On-the-Fly” Mentoring @ ALA Midwinter 2019
(via Susan Schreiner, Pittsburg State University) Once again, the University Library Section (ULS) Membership Committee is providing the “On-the-Fly” mentoring service during the ALA Midwinter Conference in Seattle. The service allows a mentee to talk with a mentor for a twenty minute session, on a drop-in basis. At Midwinter 2018, we had a great turnout…
Reminder: Chicago Library Legislative Meet-up to Take Place Friday, February 1
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago) For all interested librarians – The third annual Chicago Library Legislative Meet-up will take place on February 1, 2019. Don’t miss out on this chance to talk to your legislators! You can meet them in person and talk about issues affecting libraries and higher education, including education and…
Project Outcome for Academic Libraries: Field-Testing Results Now Available
(via Gwen Gregory, University of Illinois at Chicago) https://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/16865 The field-testing process for the new surveys for ACRL’s Project Outcome for Academic Libraries, developed in partnership with the Public Library Association (PLA), wrapped up at the end of October. These surveys are outcome-based, following the model developed by the PLA’s Performance Measurement Task Force. The goal is…